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November 24, 2006
7 killed in Muslim south despite Thai peace bid
Surayud Chulanont has already said that he would allow the imposition of Sharia in the South. Apparently that isn't good enough. From the Daily Star, with thanks to Twostellas:
Seven people were killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said Friday, despite the post-coup government's promise to boost the local economy in hopes of ending three years of unrest.
Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula said the government would set up a special economic zone in the south to lure investment to the region, which lags far behind the rest of the nation.
"We are considering giving privileges to the private sector such as tax deductions and discount fees for land purchase as investors and businessmen have fled the area," Pridiyathorn told reporters.
The economic scheme, announced Thursday by army-backed premier Surayud Chulanont after a special cabinet meeting on the insurgency, covers the three restive provinces of Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani on the border with Malaysia.
He is quite mistaken if he thinks money will solve this problem.
Posted by Robert at November 24, 2006 06:04 PM
...and the violence in Thailand continues...
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November 24, 2006
Islamic jihadists in southern Thailand burn teacher alive
Will the Islamophobia never end?
"Insurgents in southern Thailand burn teacher alive," from Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to Doc Washburn:
Bangkok - Insurgents shot a school director Friday afternoon in southern Thailand then set his vehicle on fire killing him in the flames, the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper website reported.
Police said the director of a school in Pattani province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, was shot in his pickup truck while driving out of school.
He was wounded but not killed in the shooting before insurgents set his pickup truck on fire. He was burned alive inside the truck.
Thailand's three predominately Muslim southernmost provinces have been increasingly restive the past three years, but no insurgent groups are claiming responsibility for the violence or making demands in exchange for stopping it.
Bangkok's new military-installed government has apologized to the people in the southern provinces for past injustices and is making a new approach to ending the violence peacefully a top priority.
It is the jihadists who should be apologizing, and being called upon to apologize.
Posted by Robert at November 24, 2006 07:58 PM